The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-26
JUNCoMPENsATED ovERwoRK.
Women Not Doing Too Much, as They
are Doing the Wrong Things.

From the Herald OF Health.
Are the women OF to-day working too
bardt don't mean the woman whose time
Is occupied from morning till night with
bread winning. cares of family and real
labor, but women who have time TO talk
about their duties There is an epidemic of
fatigue Tired 10 death" What has the
woman been doing: She has her best bon
net on and IS well COTTON up. Been fisticuff-
| ing her way through every cheap sale in
| town rushing through mud and mire to
match silks and get patterns: called here
and there in remote districts on business, of
course; no time for ceremonious calls: has
torn herself TO pieces figuratively, and re-
| turns home with 10 cents worth of some
thing in an elaborate velvet bag decorated
with d sinfOwer. IL she boards she sits
down that evening with her spine bent in a
half circle and outlines noseless faces and
vases all askew on unnecessary articles for
the decoration g. of her room. What
makes Us tired who have little to dol Those
even who have much to do seem not TO de
rive great benefit from all our wonderful la
Dor saving appliances. Rise! shades of our
grandmother" Up come the straight
backed, hopeless ghosts. "Tell us, beloved
memories what you think of your grand
daughters work. Here are our kitchens and
all their belongings
line shades express wonder.
what is this hot iron boxn' is the first
question.
Cooking stove, over there; put in coal
here; let out ashes there; open this, cools;
shut this, makes it hot enough to roast in
the oven; place for keeping things warm:
| boiler of hot water; there, set tubs there
sink and dish washing appliances; slide,
your dishes are away. This box with a
handle! A carpet sweeper. This multi
! f,rla IF L.
! ing work"
MY dears, what do you dor
owe are worked to death"
Listen to the voice Of the first grand
mother:
Children, we lived and worked like YOU.
We arose at in the morning and often sat
down to spinning CT knitting at daybreak
Light, heat, water prOvisions-each brought
its own difficulty, far fetched, dear bought
with labor Oh or hands and our husbands
1t wasn't matter of turning on the regis
ter to keep warm, but of back logs, four
sticks, pulling, hauling and sweating. We
bore our children! and reared them in those
hard worked conditions The work Of our
immediate successors speaks well for our ex-
e.-tions. With our minds and our bodies we
served the Lord according to our light, and
we rest"
That Is their message for us Docs il neoo
ghosts from the grave to tell us that it is not
too much that we are doing. but that it is
not the right thingi Many OF us whose in
come warrants no display are working and
fretting for display alone. The great ac-
cumlntion of heterogeneous reading matter
heincrease of church and society demands
the necessity upon all of knowing the
Whichness of the wherefore of everything
that does not vitality concern us, is not all
this bearing too heavily ON minds enervated
by lack of exercise upon the hard facts Of
existence! The family work, is not much Of
it mere fusSiug over matters which are not
necessities, and which could scarcely be
called luxuriesi No prejudice in favor of
superior education and lady-like accom-
phshmentS should blind mother to the
fact that, if spared, her girl must be wom-
an, must Eli the requirements of one and
learn her life work in her own way Can
your girl lift, pull, reach up or stoop down
without disturbing her entire economyf IL
not her condition needs your attention. A
peasant girl gracefully lifts a full tub OF
water to her head and trips nimbly over a
stile. You admire il, hut she is only a
common woman; YOU wouldn't have YOUR
daughter shut out from the sphere OF her
privileges for the sake of vulgar lifting of
tubs and hopping over stiles. Those crea-
lures, you say, are without intelligence
There Is display Of ignoranccl In the
healthy body dwels the same mind Itinav
not DE cultivated, but IL is there for the
benefit OF that woman's sons who NAV
meet your sons in the race of life and dis
lance them. Peasant boys have been heard
Of who came to our shores with bundles and
sticks and attained to enviable distinction.
Country lads from our own far-oir quar-
tiers come 30 our busting centres and take
precedence of those who have ENJOYED every
benefit this country affords. Are we so SUI
perior, after all, or are we superior in silly,
self-conscious, seini-Scentiiic wholly nm
necessary way. Could We but simplify life,
should we not then make room for broader
ideas and greater happiness in the family.